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Here we are at the September 2007 edition of the Carnival of Food Photography!  The emphasis is on summer oriented foods, to celebrate the passing of the season.  Next month will focus on fall foods, but let’s spend a moment looking back at summer.

First off, I want to address some of the entries that I got.  Sorry, but if it wasn’t summer foods oriented, it’s not included.

My first submission is from Nika.  She has a great entry at Nika’s Culinaria on "An improbably meat nirvana in a BBQ wasteland".  Great photos of a northern BBQ joint with southern BBQ, run by a CIA trained chef.  If the food is anywhere as good as the photos, this guy has great food!  (I linked to her Flickr set… a whole series of great photos!)

Next, Jennie of Straight From the Farm submitted photos from her Tomatillo and Squash Blossom Quesadillas.  The photos are really nice, and the recipe looks well worth a try.  The whole entry just says ’summer’!

Next, Shinie from This Is Really Growing Up gives us "Photo Op: Mutant Summer Squash".  What’s summer without weird stuff growing in our gardens?

The last entry is from me!  Only during summer will we have bacon/tomato sandwiches.  Nothing says "tomato season" like having fresh tomatoes paired with pepper bacon to us!

That’s it for this edition!  Thanks to everyone for your submissions.  If you weren’t included it was for one of 3 reasons:
I had problems linking to your photo (I didn’t copy any photos here to ensure the owner has control of the photos)
The entry wasn’t summer oriented
The entry didn’t make sense to have here at all, and the submitter just wanted to see if I’d list them.

Next month will be fall photos of food (good alliteration!).  So get your apple pies, pumpkin recipes, whatever says ‘fall’ to you all ready!

We all have them: the foods that we go to when we have something emotional happening in our lives.  And they’re all different.  We can pick out what we think sounds like a comfort food, but, really, our comfort foods are more personal than that.  And we have them for when we’re happy as well as when we’re sad.

This is a topic we ALL can relate to, I think.  In setting up a comment contest for barbecue sauce, I figured it was only fair to post something that we can kind of discuss.  I’d REALLY love to hear from some of the European readers, as I bet your comfort foods are a bit different than what people in the US or even Canada consider comfort foods.

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